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VOL- VII.
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Business JtefoHj.
Milner & alsabrook, attorneys at
Law, Morgan ton, Geo. —Practice in the
Counties of Union, Fannin, Gilmer and Pick
ens. James Milner, Cassville; J. F,. Alsabrook,
Morganton. may 17, 185. V -ly
CIRAWFORD k CRAWFORD, Attorney* at
i Late, Cassville, Ga.—As a firm under the
:\lu>ve name John A. & M. J. Crawford will
promptly and faithfully attend to all business
intrusted to their care in any of the counties of
thel'herokceor Blue Ridge Circuits. M. J. Craw
ford will give particular attention to the collec
ting of all claims and debts, and will spare no
pains to put cl ients in speedy possession of their
money. m h l ly
17 W. CHASTAIN, Attorney at Law, Mor
ganton, Ga.—Practices in all the coun
ties of the Cherokee circuit. Jan 5
TAMES MILNER, Attorney at Law, Cass
villc, Geo. Practises in the counties of the
Cherokee circuit. mh 4.
TANARUS) 0. CRAWEORI), Attorney at Law, Cal
l>. houn, Get).—Practice in the counties of
Jje Cherokee circuit. H l ,r 24.
RJI. TATUM. Attorney at Law, Trenton,
. Ga. —Business entrusted to hi*care in any
~f the counties of the Clicrokeecircuit. will meet
with prompt attention. Nov, 21.
SWF, IL, Attorney at Law. Canton, Geor
• gia. Business entrusted to his care in
anvof the counties of the Blue ltidgecircuit, will
meet with faithful attention.
Refers to Hon. David Irwin and Ex-Gov.
McDonald, Marietta; Col. Joseph E. Brown,
Canton; Capt. W. T. Wofford, Cassville; Col.
Geo. N. Lester, Cos mining.
Feb 10,1855 —ts
f'l J. FAIN, Attorney at Lair, Calhoun, Ga.
X* Will ’ptM'tice in all the counties of the
OcrokeetUYcftit. Partwular attention will be
paid to the collecting bXesiness. mil l*.
Air T. WOFFORD, Attorney at Lnr, Cass
\V • ville, Ga,—Firactices in all the counties
i,nfw Cherokee circuit, and will attend faithful
ly to all business entrusted to bis care. Office
tast rtt the rottrt house. aug 18—ts
n()(i PER & RICE, Attorney* at Lnr, Cass
ville, Geo.—Practice m the counties of
Cass. Cobb, Chattooga, Cat-ousa, Cherokee, Dade
Vlovd, Gordon, Gilmer, Murray, Pickens, Walk
er ami Whitfield. Jons H- KtOE will, as here
tofore, continue to give his personal ami almost
Exclusive attention to tSfce collecting business,
april 2\ 1854. j
/"i L. HARBOUR, .Attorney at Lnr, Atlan
\ ‘* ta, Georgia.—Will practice ill Ihe Jiffer
<■ll Courts of Fulton and Contiguous counties.
Pxrticular attention given to the execution of
• ■ nterrogntorics, and draughting legal instru-
HfUtfe Cla’.ns in the city of Atlanta will be
rwvmptiv attended to. Office in the Holland
House, up stairs. —Entrance first door above
Whitney A Hunt. Feb iff, ’55-ly
WIKLE & WIKT.E, Dealers in Uri; tioods,
Groceries, kc. kc. South west corner
of Public Square, Cartersville, Ga.
26, 1854.
rl). CARPENTER, Dealer in fancy, stapl e
• and domestic dry goods, sugar, coffee, mo*
/isses, kc.; hardware, cutlery, it., at Erwin s
aid stand, Cassville, Ga. iin
TW. HOOPER &CO., Dealers in Staple and
• Fancv Goods, Groceries, Iron. Hats, Caps,
Hoots and Shoes, Ac., Ac., at the Brick store,
Cassville, Ga. *<* 2, 185A
HIRSCIIBERG k DAVIDSON, CassciUe,
Ga. —Manufacturers of clothing, and deal
ers in Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, Gentlemen s
Furnishing Goods, Fancy Goods, and Jewelry,
Wholesale and Retail, at Patton’s olb stand
Cassville, Ga. June 23 185-1.
IOCKETT A SPELLINGS, Fn •tor* and
j General Commission Merchant*, will attend
strictly to Receiving and Forwarding aud
Selling everything sent to our uddress.
sept o—6 m*
WM. M. PEEPLES, Dealer in Dry Goods.
Groceries, Iron, Hardware, Saddlery,,
Boots, Shoes, Drugs, Medicines, kc., kc. Cal
houn, Ga.
May 5, 1854. —ly
G. COURTENAY, A CO. No. 3, Broad
lO* Street, Charleston, South Carolina. Books,
Stationery, Fancy Articles, Magazines, and
."Newspapers.
The most extensive stock of Novels, Roman
ces, Ac., in the Southern country.
23f* Near the Post Office. mh 16
-s. p. COURTENAY. w. A. COIJHTKXAY.
HYATT McBURNEY A CO., Direct Im
porters and Wholesale Dealers in Foreign
and Dor .estic Dry Goods, No. 37 Hayne Street,
Cbarleawn, S. C. Jan 12, 18.m—49—ly
lIITAKD a BURCHARD, Augusta Ga.,
,VV would inform their friends and the puU
lie generally, tl#it anticipating a change in their
business, the coming season, they are disposed
“o make large concessions from their former low
Scales of prices, in order to reduce tlieir stock to
‘".he lowest possible point- The attention of
‘wholesale dealers as well as customers, is res
iieofeftHy solicited.
Augusta, Dec 22
I>ARR & McKENZlE.—Factors and Conimis*
sion Merchants, and Dealers in Groceries*
Produce and Merchandise generally, Atlanta.
Ua.
Particular attention given to consignments of
Cotton, Grain, Bacon, and all kinds of Produce.’
t. J. PARR. K. MCKENZIE.
aug. 11.—ly.
W INSHIPS IRON WORKS.—The subscri
ber is now prepared to receive and exe
cute orders for anv kind of Castings, or Ma
chine work, and all persons favoring him with
orders may rely upon having them executed in
tfe* best manner, and with despatch. Orders
lor Sash-blinds and doors promptly attended to
.at his Car Establishment. Cash paid for old
(Copper, Brags I)<J Iron Castings.
JOSEPH WIN,SHIP.
Atlanta, Oa.,’June 30, V*s4,
J< T^bACKSMITIIINO,— The Subscriber
I) is prepared to do all kinds of work
his liue, such as Ironing Carriages,
making and repairing Farming imple
I melts, edge-tools,, horseshoeing, Ac, in the best
I voiinec, mid on, tJm most reasonable terms.—
’j-dde tools, lyurranted’, A share of patronage is
solicited-. ft, GRlFFlN
£p>syilfe, Gp., Feb,. 16,1855.—2—1 j..
W msim,
BObeHLs t’ioeiiis.
HAVANA plan LOTTERY!
Jasper County Academy Lottery!
By authority of ihe State of Georgia.
CLASS E.
THE Subscriber having been appointed man
ager of the Jasper County Academy Lotte
ry, intends conducting the same on the Havana
plan of single numbers, and has located his Os
lice in the city of Macon, Georgia. lie now
offers the following—
GRAM) SCHEME FOR SEPTEMBER 24, 1855:
When prizes will be distributed as follows, a
mounting to
THIRTY-ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS!!
CAPITAL, SS,OOO.
1 Prize of SB,OOO I 1 Prize of $5,000
1 “ 2,000 I 2 “ 1,000 2,000
5 “ 500 2,500 110 “ 200 2,000
20 “ 100 2,000 178 “ 50 3,900
120 “ 25 3,000 jlB Approx, prizes, GOO
256 Prizes amounting to $31,000.
Only 10,000 numbers.
Remember every Prize drawn at each draw
ing, under the superintendence of Col. Geo. M.
Logan and Jus. A. Nisbet, Esq., gentlemen who
are sworn to a faithful performance of their du
ty. Prizes paid when due without discount.
All orders, rely on it, strictly confidential.—
Bills on all solvent Banks taken at par.
Whole Tickets $5, Halves $2,50, Quarters $1,25.
Address JAS. F. WINTER, Manager,
Sept 6 Macon, Geo.
Charleston Weekly Standard,
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rales of sale for stock. Exchange, ami Domes
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TION.
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Morning, aud bv the evening of the next day
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L. W. SPRATT A CO.
. ||gT| . (A EORGE VOGT’S Piano and
vyg \ T Music Store, No. 148 Arch
rHf Philadelphia. Constantly
* *** u on hand Pianos, Melodeons, Musi
cal Merchandize of every description, Sheet Mu
sic, Ac. Ac.
Vogt’s Pianos are pronounced superior to
all others in sweetness, power and beauty of
tone and unequalled workmanship. Persons
wishing a Piano of the first class and undoubt
ed excellence, at a very moderate price, will do
well to give them a trial. sept 1 1
NOTICE TO LAND OWNERS! The under
signed having removed from Albany to
Troiipville, Lowndes county, Ga.
Will in addition to the practice of Law examine
and report the value of land in the counties of
Thomas, Lowndes, Clinch, Ware, Appaling and
Irwin. lie will, when requested, examine
Lands personally, and give full information, as
to * ilue, location and probability of immediate
sal j. Having no connection whatever with
land speculation he will engage to act as agent,
in the sale or purchase of lands, in any of the
aforesaid counties for a fee often per cent, up
on tlte amount received or paid out, His char
ges for examining land will be five dollars per
lot, for lands in the 12th district of Ixnvndes, in
all the other districts, he will charge ten dol
lars. Additional will he charged for an exami
nation of title upon record.
EPHRIAM H. PLATT,
Attorney at Law,
Troupville, Lowndes Cos. Ga.
Nov 17—ly
JL House and Commission Meu
c„A NTS, Augusta, Ga. —Continue the
business in ail its branches, and will give
fcheir personal attention to the Sale of COTTON
and other prwduce. Cash advances made when
required. Bagging, Rope, and family supplies
purchased at the lowest market rates. Com
mission for selling CotfiiH 25 cents per bale,
auglß
OLD SOLDIERS.—By a recent Act of
JL Congress, all persons who have served in
any War since 1790, are entitled to 160 acres of
Land —and those who have received Warrants
for a less number, are entitled to a sufficient
number of acres to mi> 4 e that amount. The
undersigned will ‘attend to the collection of
such claims. WM. T. WOFFORD.
Cassv'We, mh B—ts
\ GENCY AT WASHINGTON.—The un-
A dersigned prosecutes all manner of claims
against the United States, before Congress, be
fore Commissioners, and before all the Public
Departments, and especially claims for bounty
land under the act of Congress just passed, pen
sions, back-pay, half-pay, adjustment of amounts
of disbursing “officers, settlement of post mas
ters and contractors accounts, and every other
business requiring the prompt and efficient ser
vices of an attorney or agent.
A residence of twenty years at the seat of the
Federal Government, with a thorough and fa
miliar acquaintance with all the routine of the
public business at the different offices, added to
his free access to consul’ Hie ablest legal advi
sers, if needed, justifies the subscriber in pledg
ing the fullest satisfaction and utmost dispatch
to those who may entrust their business to his
care.
Being well known to the greater portion of
the citizens of Washington, as well as to many
gentlemen who have been members of both
Houses of Congress in the last fifteen years, it
is deemed unnecessary to extend this notice by
special references. A full power of attorney
should accompany all cases. Communications
must he pre-paid in all cases. Fees regulated
by nature and extent of the business, but al
ways moderate.
H. C. SPALDING, Attorney.
Washington, D. C. mh 15 —
T>OUNTY LANDS. —The undersigned hay-
I J ing long been engaged in the prosecution
of Revolutionary Pension Claims, Invalid Pen
sion Claims, Bounty Land Claims Ac., against
the General Government, now tenders his ser
vices to all such claimants, especially to Bounty
Tjtind, Claimant* for the procurements of their
Claims, as there are many such Claims under
the late law of Congress, which gives an addi*
tionul Bounty of Land to the soldiers of all the
wars in whicn the United States has engaged
since 1790, who have not received as much as
ICO acres. ELISHA KING.
Adairsville Ga. mh 22—2 m
rflUft _ AT CARTERSVILLE, GEO.!
J. P- White, respectfully informs
**TMwir the citizens of Cass and surround
ing counties that he has located in Cartersville,
and will attend promptly to all orders in the
line of PLASTERING. All work warranted,
may 17, 1855 —ly
T AND WARRANTS WANTED— The un-
I j dersigned will pay the highest cash prices
for Land Warrants. He can always be found
at his store in Cassville. _ . „
MADISON McMURRAY.
june 28—21 ts
READY-MAHE CLOTHING, PuCl. Stuff,
C'hambrav,. and* a fine assortment of Jew
elry,, at “ LEVY’S CASH STOftE.
ajw 2j>;—tf;
® Ertili) KetMspaper—SeboieO so Wlotol gi)C>,ir,c JolificjPWJiWe,’ W’ Foreign niid &oftie.sfic Ketos, &e.
CASSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, SEPT. 13, 1855.
Cjjaite
My Pets.
Dark eyed Fannie ! five years old,
With a foot of fairy mould
And a tone that can beguile
Like the wood note of a bird,
Or the strain Ulysses heard
Floating from Calypso’s isle,
Joy stood, hand in hand, with Hope
When was cast thy horoscope.
Blue eyed Mary ! on thy head
Summers three have blossoms shed,
And thy cheek puts on a bloom
That sceme caught from sunset skies;
And thy soft, love-darting eyes
Can make Grief forget her gloom ;
Weary of the world, I long,
,< Mamy - ’ for thy voice of song.
Dark eyed Fannie! unto thee
Summer always life will be,
For thy fancy can invest
Common things with beauty rare,
And the raven, dark despair.
Near thee will not build her nest:
Joy and Hope a moasure light
Danced when born thy beauty bright.
Mary of the radiant face,
Sunny tress and neck of grace !
Often through a happy dream,
With a rose wreath round thy head,
Glidest thou with .airy tread
Shedding an Elysian gleam;
Charmed and holy was the hour
Os thy birth, thou peerless flower!
(Drigmal liainidlettr.
Written expressly for the Cassville Standard.*
II): 11)1*:: GolOei) ILiuljs.*
LINK THE SECOND.
LOVE:
Or the Adventures of an American
Student.
BY MISS C. W. BARBER.
CHAPTER IX.
THE LITTLE MAN.
By noon that day, an armed force-,
consisting of two hundred men or more,
had been collected, and were earnestly
searching through mountain passes,
rocky defiles and lowly vallies, for the
lost travellers. Not a trace of them or
of the desperate men who without doubt
held them in custody, could be found.
Two miles or more above Crag’s End,
there was the trace of wheels and horses
feet, which it seemed had at some peri
od turned, or been turned abruptly from
the main road into the thick wood. For
a rod or two these marks could be dis
tinctly traced: they then disappeared
entirely. Not a vestige of them could
be seen. Old leaves and brush wood
were scattered about —if wheels bad in
deed passed up there, great pains bad
been taken to obliterate tlie tracks they
must have left behind them. These
faint marks were all that could be dis
covered, as affording any clue to the fate
—tln> mysterious fate of the travellers.
They were pursued again and again that
day, and for a month afterwards, by the
excited inhabitants, but they faded out,
and could not be followed far. For more
than a month, the armed mountaineers
in a body, scoured the country. Butin
vain : nothing could be seen indicating
even that Bob Clinch and bis land bad
returned. The country seemed perfectly
quiet —no ken-roosts bad been robbed —
no houses broken open or entered by
means of false keys —no murder or theft
had anywhere been committed. A veil
of mystery —dense, dark and impenetra
Me, hung over the fate of those ill-starred
travellers, who had set out on that hap
py morning after the Commencement in
the University at B—, so ardent and
flushed with expectation —so eager and
animated by hope.
As we have before intimated, there
were two hearts in the brown house on
the hill, which beat during all of that
time, and for many successive days after
the search had been relinquished as en
tirely fruitless, with an anxious thrill. —
Julia White and Gertrude Smith felt
and knew what it was, during that pe
riod, to be utterly miserable. They
moved through the richly furnished
rooms, pale, silent and abstracted. Nei
ther bad known before the deep and
abiding interest in the welfare of the
lost, which had somehow crept in and
gained strong foot-hold in her heart.—
They listened eagerly for coming feet,
and turned away heart sick, when told
that there were no tidings as yet of the
missing, and when at length Smith came
in, pale, exhausted and soiled with dust,
saying in a low and melancholy voice
so unusual to him that the search had
been given up by all parties as useless,
both swooned, and were carried to their
chambers. The mountaineers, when
they heard of this excessive emotion, at
tributed it to the feeling which comes
over us all when wo feel, know and re
alize that we have ourselves escaped,
barely escaped, some great dire calamity,
“No wonder,” said they, “ that the
young ladies at ’Squire White’s wCrc
deeply affected. What if the}/ had 1 beeh
attacked by the robbers instead of their
friends !• I l t was enough to make any
I *Gopy right secured..
44 PRINCIPLES NOT MEN.”
body’s flesh crawl on their bones to think
about falling into the hands of Bob
Clinch and his gang, and the young
people up there in the white house had,
according to all that could be gathered,
made a narrow escape of it—a very nar
row escape indeed ! They reckoned that
they wouldn’t go to any more Com
mencements soon, or be starting off to
the Springs again.” They had all sup
posed, when they saw the white house
closed, that its owner had gone into the
low country, but it seemed the whole
family had only been to the Springs.
Sol, the dwarf, had been the first to
commence the pursuit-j —he was also the
last to relinquish it. lie lingered and
loitered for days aboutj|Crag’s End, and
traced and re-traced the wheel marks,
until they disappeared in the wood. At
length he came in exhausted, and sat
down among the leather and waxed ends,
on his bench by the little window.
Dora came and stood behind him,
and stroked the yellowish coarse hair
hack from his sweaty, anxious forehead,
with her pale, tiny Angers.
“ Don’t he sorry, Sol,” she said, sooth
ingly —“ Mamma sorry too!” The dwarf
took the little thing to his bosom and
kissed her soft cheek passionately.
“I wanted to find him'’ he said, as if
speaking to himself, “so that I might
toll him how thankful we all felt for this
dear precious lamb’s life, which he was
instrumental in saving, and I wanted
morcover-to show him the Book—the
Book beyond all price, which he sent
to me —it is without a spot, and a leaf
in it has never been turned down. I read
it morning and evening. In it is the
mystery of mysteries. 4 God manifest in
the flesh.’ From its sacred pages may
be learned that great lesson of Love,
Love to the humblest and meanest, who
show themselves worthy of belonging to
our Brotherhood.”
“ non’t talk in that way, Sol,” said
Mrs. A lice, quite melted into tears; “don’t
talk in that way ! it makes me think of
the night in which I turned him away,
and then to think that he came back
and paid me for my unkindness by sav
ing the life of my child! Itjs too much!
Entirely too much ! I cannot stand it.”
Just then Daddy Logan came in and
sat down before the fire. Dora left Sol’s
knee and went to him. The dwarf
picked up his work and commenced
stitching away industriously.
“Can I get a pair of shoes here?”
said a small, squeaking voice, near the
threshold.
The whole family turned simultane
ously to look at the speaker. A little
weazen faced old man stood there, clad
in dusty black clothes, of an ancient
make, and carrying a huge walnut
walking stick in his hand. lie nodded
familiarly to the honest mountaineer and
then repeated his question.
“ Can I buy a pair of shoes here ?
I’ve walked mine entirely out, and the
people who live in the house on the hill
said that it mought be I could get a pair
here.”
Daddy Logan surveyed him from head
to foot, and then told him to walk in;
maybe he could he accommodated.
“ 1 want a pair,” continued the little
old man in the same squeaking voice,
while coming forward and looking at his
feet, with which he walked a little lame,
“ I want a pair high in the instep, and
with monstrous thick soles. You see I
live up here in Woburn county, and I
started to see my darter, who is married
and settled in the low country. My cre
tur hit died before I got half way, and
I’m obleeged to take it on foot. I've just
riddled my shoes all out, and a very de
cent sort of gentleman, who lives just
hack, told me that Daddy Logan could
either make or sell me anew pair—
you’ve seen him, I suppose.”
The mountaineer bowed.
“ Well, if that fellow there,” bowing
towards Sol, “ will just take my measure,
I’ll wait here until they are done, and
then pay him what he axes.”
Sol had laid down both awl and
leather, at the first sound of the man’s
squeaking voice. lie had looked him
over and over from head to foot, while
lie had been seating himself in the chair,
which Daddy Logan placed for him, and
a st'-ange kind of expression had set
tled down upon his coarse, ungainly
features.
The black eye of the little man now
glanced at him furtively but keenly. Sol
did not like its expression. There was
a vicious light in it, so ho imagined.
“Do you think you have a pair which
will suit, Sol ?” asked Daddy Logan,
turning towards the dwarf. “ You see
the size of his feet.”
Sol arose and measured the traveller,
lie then brought forward a pair from a
drawer beneath his bench, which he
said might answer.
The little man stamped and swore
while trying them on. They were not
high enough in the instep lie said—they
must be stretched.
Daddy Logan’s eye was upon him a
good deal while this process was going
forward. There Was something about
him whicti reminded him of somebody
whom he had Mj'eff beffom —of somebody
to Wards’ WlVonV he felt an aversion. Ho
could not keep now from, regarding him;
with’ antipathy, althbUgfr lib appeared’
I to be a Vcfy decent soft of old 1 gentleman 1 .
|,Neither ooukl lib recall’ the’ spot and
time where and when he had seen any
body like him.
The shoes at length were stretched to
fit. The little man concluded that they
would do very well, hut lie demurred a
long time over the price.* He was a
poor man lie said, going to the low
country to see his darter. IBs crctur
had died too. It was outrageous to ax
a man like him such a price. But he
reckoned that he had money enough to
pay it. He would see. He drew forth
from one of his pockets a greasy wallet,
and from the wallet a clean two dollar
hill. The en gravings on it were some
what dim, although the money was
apparently new. Sol took it without
doubting aloud, its genuineness, however.
The fiery little old man picked up
his stick—bade them good day, and left.
Sol stood by the window a moment, in
specting his money.
“It is a counterfeit hill,” at length he
said quietly, while handing it to Daddy
Logan. “That little old nan is Boh
Clirch. I’d bet my head on the fact.
I shall follow him at any rate.”
Daddy Logan started.
4 ’ You will not follow him alone,” he
said. .“ He will not pay you the money,
even if you overtake him.”
“ 1 do not care for the hill,” said Sol.
“ 1 saw it was counterfeit before he left.
I want to find out where he and his
gang stay.” The dwarf took his hat
and started out. He followed the sus
picious character at a distance, warily
and well. But he had a tedious day’s
work of it. The man in black took the
circuit of the neighborhood. He had
an excuse for going into every house,
and for finding out what every body was
about. At the blacksmith’s he wanted
an iron end fastened on to the tip of his
staff. At the miller’s he begged for
bread—at the farm house for fruit—at
the hrowu house on the hill he stopped
for water. He every where told the
some tale, viz: that lie was on his way
to the low country, to see his darter, but
his idea of directions seemed to be con
fused in the extreme. The longer Sol
followed him the more convinced lie be
came that he was any thing rattier than
what he pretended to be.
Towards night-fall the old man struck
into a wild mountain path. Out of the
way cf observation, he now suddenly for
got his lameness. lie scaled high rocks
and mountain paths with the agility of
a deer, and the hardihood of an Indian.
The dwarf found it a difficult matter to
follow him and at the same time elude
his observation. Twice he thought he
had lost track of him entirely, but in a
few minutes he discovered that he was
still upon it. Onward and onward he
plunged, uutil the moon was high up in
the sky, and the blue concave above
was thickly studded with stars. Near
what the dwarf judged must be mid
night, he stopped before what seemed to
be the smooth surface of a perpendicu
lar rock. With the iron end of his cane
he struck three measured strokes, and,
to Sol's surprise, the side of the rock
opened silently and took him into its
subterranean cavern. There was no
noise made —no voice spoke—the little
man who stood a few minutes before,
like Moses of old, smiting the granite
barrier had disappeared, almost as mys
teiiously as though the rock had ab
sorbed him. Where had he gone? —
what had become of him ? Sol could
follow him no longer. There rose the
high, steep surface of the rock, towering
up majestically in the moonlight, and
showing on its even front no crack or
crevice. The dwarf approached it and
laid his ear to the ground. No sound
was to be heard save the voice of a
cricket, chirruping in the long grass
near. No light was to be seen—no an
imated object was visible. Sol was baf
fled. lie stood irresolute—uncertain
what he had best do. But perseverance
had marked bis character from a child.
So lie stuck his crooked, waxy hands in
to his pockets and commenced rambling
about the cliff, and surveying it upon
all sides. In vain the effort—it stood
there like an iron shrine, or a dumb sen
tinel, refusing to yield up one iota of a
charge committed to its trust.
But there is no place so hidden in its
recesses—so enshrined, and shut out of
view, that its guilty secrets may not
leak out. Oh ! it is a fearful thing to
sin. Every the Eye of the All-
Seking penetrates, and when we think
we have enshrouded ourselves in deep
est, darkest night, we find that the eye
of a mortal, short-sighted as ourselves,
has perhaps pierced and read the arcana
of our hiding places.
Opposite to where Sol first stopped,
ho discovered, after a long and thorough
search, a ray of light penetrating through
what seemed to boa crevice in the rock.
It was so faint, as at first make him un
certain wliother it might not bo the
reflection of a moon-beam, but after he
had removed a loose rock or two and
dug a little with his hands, he paw that
it was no mppiishino which had cheated
him. Slowly, cautiqusly, arpl wearily,
did lie work on, until ho had removed a
pile of brush wood, ami forced hmyself
into an aperture, whefo ho felt confident
he might obtain some, knowledge of
what was jpaWrVg inkido.dr the,cave,
which lie knew must lie within', lie was
right. He could see (jibtinctiy by tfie
light of, a latnjV Which’ was
tVonV tfiW I‘obf pf tlii?’ CaVern’ by fro if
TWO DOLLARS A-YEAR, IN ADVANCE.
chains, the inside of this subterranean
abode, and the people and things which
it contained. His attention was first ar
rested by two miserable looking men,
who were fastened by chains to iron
hasps driven into the wall. Tln-y lay
upon the hard rock floor beneath them
and slept. In the lamp-ligiit they look
ed haggard and care worn—their beards
were uncut, and their hair straggled in
uncombed locks down the sides of their
faces. Sol came near screaming out- j
right, w’hen he recognised in one of these :
beings, Marchmont, the handsome stu
dent. The other, he had no doubt, was
Professor M .
Not far from them, ranged in rows,
were rough looking robbers, also fast
asleep. One only was awake. Sol re
cognized in him the little man whose
footsteps lie had been dogging so long, j
This man sat in the light of the lamp, j
and worked upon what seemed to he an
injured fire lock, lie had thrown aside j
his disguises, and seemed to be a small, j
good looking Frenchman, forty-five or
fifty years of age. In one corner of the
cave stood the vehicle iu which March
mont and liis companion w’ere riding a!
the time of the capture. Their trunks j
had been unlocked or broken open —
tlieir money and wearing apparel had
doubtless all been appropriated. The
horses and driver were no where visible.
The former had doubtless been sold, to I
avoid detection, but w hat had become
of the latter ? Sol could not solve the
query, and lie dared not continue his
observations too long. He crept hack ;
to the fresh air, on liis hands and knees, ■
and then carefully replaced the rocks j
and brush wood which he had removed. I
This done, lie noted as keenly as an In
dian, every thing around him, and then
silently and stealthily pursued his back
ward course.
(Concluded next week.)
From the Detroit Free Pres*, A wj. i-'S.
Letter of Gen. Cass on Know Nothing
lsm and the Power of Congress in
the Territories.
Detroit, Aug 22, 1855.
To the Editor of the Free Press :
Sir —The public journals contain a letter
dated July 24th, written by Gen Houston,
which has just met my eye, and in which he
says he perceives, by the papers of the day,
that <i General Cass has approved the plat
form of the American Order, as proclaimed
to the world by the Convention at Philadel
phia ” I had observed the statements to
which Gen. Houston alludes, and had let
them pass unnoticed, for it would be a hope
less task to endeavor to correct all the mis
apprehensions and misrepresentations to
which it is my lot, as well as that of all oth
er public men, to be exposed in these days
of party strife. And, indeed, I could not
suppose that such assertions would deceive
anyone who had heard or had read my re
marks in the Senate of the United States, on
the fifth ofFebruary last, upmi the present
ation of the resolutions of the Legislature of
Michigan, instructing the Senators of that
State to vote for an act of Congress prohibit
ing the introduction of slavery into the Ter
ritories of the United States. Upon that oc- j
casion, while declining to comply with those
instructions, I took the opportunity to ex- i
press my sentiments in relation to the new i
political movement, which sought to acquire !
and exercise power by secret combinations !
bouud together by the sanctions of an oath, j
which, it is said, made it the duty of its j
members to surrender their individual con- ■
victions to the expressed will of a majority
of their associates. I then observed;—
* Strange doctrines are abroad, and strange
organizations are employed to promulgate
and enforce them. Our political history con
tains no such chapter in the progress of oar
country, as that which is now opening. The
questions of constitutionality and policy,
which have been so long the battle cry of i
parties, arc contemptuously rejected, anil ]
intolerance, religious and political, finds
zealous, and it may be they will prove sue- |
cessful, advocates in this middle of the nine- j
teeuth century, boasting with much self
complacency of its intelligence, and in this !
free country, founded upon immigration, j
and growu prosperous and powerful by tole- i
ration. * * * * j
We want no new parties, no uew platforms, 1
no new organizations, and the sooner these j
dangerous efforts are abandoned, the better j
will it bo for us, and for those who are to
follow us in this heritage of freedom.”
I might well suppose. after the expression
of these views upon the floor of the Senate,
and under circumstances of peculiar respon- j
sibility, that any further action on my part |
would be uunecessary to prove my consist- j
ency, as a disciple of the school of Washing
ton, and Jefferson, and Mad son, and Jack- ]
son, in tho rejection of a dangerous innova- j
tion, inconsistent with all the principles :
those patriots taught, and which, in cfl'oot, |
aims to transfer the great politionl duty of :
an American citizen from tho light of day,
where it should bo exeroisrd in this land of
freedom, to secret conclaves, as unfriendly to
calm investigation, ns to wise and patriot
ic decision. But tho extract from the letter
of Gen • Houston has shown me that these re- j
fiorts have received more credit tlmn I had j
believed, and this consideration lias induced |
me thus publicly to notice and to contradict
them. My opinions, indeed, upon any sub
ject are of bdt little consequence, except'to
‘ myself; but if they arc worth referring to,
no. 3i.
•% -t -i ••
tlioy me worth the trouble of making the
reference a clear one. (
J have no sympathy with this plan of po
litical organization—none whatever, neither
with the means it employs, nor the objects it
seeks to attain. Its secrecy, it oath-bound
obligations, Rs control of the ballot box, its
system of proscription, striking both at po
litical rights and religious duties, and its
inevitable tendency to array one portion of
; the community against another, and to car
ry deadly feuds into every corner of the land,
: of which we have just had a terrible proof,
written in characters of blood, and are
doomed to have many more, if this movement
goes on, for this is but the first instalment
of death, and how many others are to follow,
and to what ex-tent, and when the last is to .
be paid, aud after what lamentable vicissi
tudes, is known only to Him who foresees
; events, and can control them—these charaG-
teristics mark it as the most dangerous
scheme which has ever been introduced into
! <ur country to regulate its public action or
j its social condition. It is the Orangeism of
a republic, scarcely better in principle than
its monarchical prototype—of a republic
whose freedom and equality, justify as little
as they invite the introduction of n machinc
j ry whose operation is concealed from public
observation, but whose consequences are as
clear as they are alarming.
Geu. Houston gives credence to the report
that I approve the platform of the Ameri
j can Order, as proclaimed to the world by
the Convention at Philadelphia.” lam a
ware that changes have been made, both in
toe name and in some of the principles of
| this new organization. But these changes
‘do not remove my objections to it. Its spirit
: of exclusion aud iutolerauce remains, and
, with it, its evils and its dangers. It is a
book to which I cannot be reconciled, what
ever addition, whether the new one or the
old one is offered to me. There is, indeed,
one principle laid down in that convention
which meets my concurrence, and that ic,
the declaration that Congress ought not to
legislate upon the subject of slavery, within
the territories of the United States.” I re
gret, however, that the body which thus pro
nounced against the exercise of the power,
did not also pronounce against its existence,
hut carefully pretermited—to use its own
words—the expression of any opinion upon
t..at point. Still, 1 .approve it's action upon
the subject, so far as its goes. It is a step
ii the rigli<t direction, and I should rejoice
to see it followed by every political party in
our country. It is a step, too, towards the
security of political rights—this opposition
to the legislation of Congress over the inter
nal affairs of the people of thy Territories,
anil anioiig others, over the rellUion of mas
ter and servant, or that of fAband and
wi e, or parent and child,, of thtfje matters
of domestic policy are subjects which should
be lett to the Territorial communities, and
to divest them of tiie power to regulate them,
is an act of unmitigated despotism. The ne
gation of nil power of interference by Con
| gress ‘ll tiie internal government of the Ter
! I'ltori'.'s, is the true constitutional doctrine,
and the only safe and practicable one, and
I am rejoiced that after years of opposition
—ot obloquy, indeed—it is fast, establishing
itsell upon impregnable grounds. The mis
apprehension which lias prevailed upon this
grave subject, is among tiie most extraordi
nary political events of my time. One
would naturally suppose that in this coun
try. the dogma of the right ot internal
government by an irresponsible legislature
over a distant community, unrepresented in
the ruli'-g b dy, would find but little favor,
nltha* •1 16 power to establish and put in
operation, a government might well be de
fended, while the jower to control all tho
concerns of human life* would be left without
unalvocate. The difference is broad and
practical, and should be dearer to us, as it
was the very consideration urged by our
revolutionary fathers in their contest with
the mother country, which began by argu
ment, but ended by arms. It was asserted
as early as 1774, wlun the Continental Con
gress declared that the English colonists
i* are entitled to a free aud exclusive power
of legislation in their several provincial le
gislatures, where their right of representa
tion can alone be preserved, in all cases of
taxation and internal polity, &c.” In that
great struggle, the patriots who conducted
it, conceded to the British Parliament the
authority to organize colonial governments,
but denied their right to touch the internal
polity of the people ; and for the support of
the great principle, denied and derided as it
is now, they went to war.
I observe that a highly respectable and
intelligent gentleman,, Hunt, of New
York, ifi a letter just speaks of
the Nebraska bill ns •• lm3yd 1 oil the absurd
theory of territorial sovereignty.’’, I never
heard a man support that measure, or ap
prove it tor such a reason. Gov. Hunt has
mistaken tl e sneers of its enemies for the
views of its frieuds Tho Nebraska bill rests
upon no such theory —upon no theory at all,
hut upon tho stable foundation of the s*eue
j nil Constitution, and of tho natural rights
of man.
1 know of no one who claims sovereignty
for tho Territories. All concede thuit* do
pondeuoe upon tho United States. But
within this relation thoro lire mutual rights
and duties, and the questions—what power
may Congress,lawfully exercise, and nro tilt)
people of the Territories divested of all rights
—must be doterjninp'd, uot by politico-met
uphysioal ionsidcrd/ltinß arising out of the.
attribute of sovereignty, but by tho Consti
tution of tho United States. To tho law
to (ho testimony. By that Constitution, the.
General Government is a Government, npt
only of a grauted, but ortimited powers, md^